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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Before I show it you, I will send all our attendants to bed, save the two we will take with us my own maid, and Amenche's." "I will be going. Roger Hawkshaw will help you," Cuitcatl said. "It will take some time for Bathalda to get the litters and the men. "It is now ten o'clock.
The boat was ordered to be at once got in readiness; and after a painful parting with Amenche, who wept bitterly, Roger left the palace; and again accompanied by Cuitcatl, in order to ensure his safety across the lake, was taken over to Mexico.
As they walked towards the terrace, upon which the queen and her ladies were standing, Cuitcatl said: "I had intended to ask you, Roger, to try a bout of sword play with some of us; but I will not do so now.
She took Roger's hand, and gazed up into his face. She seemed to try to speak, and then Roger felt her sway suddenly, and caught her just as she would have fallen. "Give her to me," the queen said. "It is best so, by far. "Hurry away, Roger. You have done harm enough, without meaning it. "Cuitcatl, take him away, at once." The young noble took Roger's hand, and hurried him away.
Those who have been the most friendly with them will be the very first to take up arms against them, in order to make their peace with the Aztecs, and to avert their vengeance for the aid they have given the Spaniards. Long before we could reach the coast, the Spaniards there would either be killed, or driven on board their ships." Cuitcatl could not deny the justice of Roger's reasoning.
"I should say," Cuitcatl burst out passionately, "that every Mexican should take up arms, and annihilate this handful of invaders. What though Montezuma fall? Better that a monarch should perish than a nation. Besides, Montezuma has shown himself unfit to govern. It is his weakness that has brought things to this pass.
One evening, about five months after his arrival, Roger had just returned from an excursion upon the lake; and he and Cuitcatl were seated in the latter's rooms, sipping chocolate, when the hangings of the door were drawn aside suddenly, and Amenche entered. With an exclamation of surprise, the two young men rose to their feet and saluted deeply.
"I am glad, indeed," he exclaimed. "I wondered what had become of him, in the fight." Bathalda's exclamation silenced the murmur with which the others had heard that one of the white men had been saved, by them, from the general destruction which, as they believed, had fallen upon their oppressors. "He is a friend of our people," Cuitcatl went on, "and is of another race to these Spaniards.
On the evening of the second day after starting, Bathalda returned, alone. "I have very bad news," he said, "so bad that I hardly like to tell it. Four days since, an officer and guard arrived from Mexico, with orders to arrest Cuitcatl, who was reported by the priests in the neighborhood to have harbored a white man, and to have permitted him to escape.
With Cuitcatl as a guide, Roger visited the schools where the young nobles were educated, and which reminded him much of that at which he had, for five or six years, been taught. He also frequently witnessed the drilling of the soldiers. This was of a very simple character, consisting principally in teaching them to move together in masses, and to shoot with a bow.
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